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Former Midway boss David Zucker believes the troubled publisher has nothing to fear thanks to its considerable investment in next-gen console technology.

Ubisoft has snapped up the intellectual property rights to the Tom Clancy name for use in games and related products - including books and movies.

Harmonix, MTV Games and Electronic Arts have confirmed a Wii version of Rock Band is on the way - as promised by silver-haired fox John Riccitiello at the beginning of February.

Hello everyone! Eurogamer will now be off "celebrating Easter" until Tuesday, 25th March.

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is a port of a two-year-old GameCube title that makes little and entirely optional use of the Wii controls, runs at 50Hz and essentially removes half of the game by taking away the choice to be a girl farmer. It's also an otherwise unchanged Wii conversion of the best Harvest Moon game ever made, released exclusively in Europe to make up for the fact that the Cube version never made it over here.

Push your finger here. No, it's ok. Just give it a little poke. That's my soft spot for Ankh. German developer Deck 13 showed a genuine love for the classic 90s adventures, and for once demonstrated an understanding of how they worked. It was imperfect in many ways, but for a bright, cartoon point-and-click adventure, it stood out from the crowd by not sucking out loud. We got a slightly inferior sequel, and now we have Jack Keane.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial offers analysis of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GamesIndustry.biz newsletter subscribers.

You might not convulse with pleasure at the sight of labels like MX (motocross) and ATV (quad bikes), but when brought together with buggies, 4x4s and monster trucks and vast tracks full of huge jumps, as they are in Rainbow Studios' MX vs. ATV Untamed, the result should be closer to something like MotorStorm. And you know how we love MotorStorm.

"BLAM BLAM BLAM excuse me sir BLAM BLAM BLAM and you are dust. Aha crates! SWISH SLASH SWISH mmm delicious bolts CLINK CLINK CLINK CLINK ah good day sir BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM sorry must be going BLAM BLAM and you are dust CLINK CLINK ahh yes I WILL have an even more powerful gun thank you BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOOOOOOOM..."

After 30 years of hurt, which never stopped us dreaming, Sony Europe has released PAIN on PlayStation Network for GBP 4.99.

Codemasters Online Gaming has confirmed that it's in talks to publish two massively multiplayer online games for home consoles, reports GamesIndustry.biz.

SEGA and Marvel have announced that Robert Downey Jr. and other people will be doing voice acting in its upcoming Iron Man game.

Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends will be released on PS2 and Xbox 360 on 28th March, KOEI told Eurogamer this afternoon.

MTV has announced that more than 6 million Rock Band songs have been sold as downloadable content.

GamesIndustry.biz has learned that the Byron Review - the government's anticipated study into the effects of violent imagery and content in interactive media on children - is due to be published on March 27.

EA has sneakily released a beefy patch to address problems with The Orange Box on PS3.

Media Molecule has assured those excited about LittleBigPlanet that it's coming along very nicely, thank you.

Electronic Arts' Chris Corry believes there is still a long way to go before console RTS games can be as fluent as their PC counterparts.

SouthPeak is working on a firework-themed shooter for DS.

Sony will be unleashing 24 fresh songs on the SingStore tomorrow.

Mission Bay Community Church in San Francisco is using a Jesus Mii to advertise its Easter celebrations.

What with it being Easter this weekend ("Hello Thomas, it's your mother. Are you coming home for Easter?" "Why?"), several of this week's new games are out today rather than tomorrow, and indeed we won't be here tomorrow or on Monday.

PlayStation 3's upcoming 2.20 firmware will include Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 (known as "BD-LIVE") Internet features and allow you to copy music and photos directly from PS3 to PSP.

The Agency is one of our most-wanted MMOs at the moment, and not just because it's coming to PS3 as well as PC. The spy-themed massively multiplayer shooter from Sony Online Entertainment - creators of early hit EverQuest, and Star Wars Galaxies - looks like it will be one of the first major MMOs to offer a convincing alternative to the epic fantasy RPG grind. Players will enter a sharply-drawn, stylish, but none too serious world of intrigue as either a UNITE super-spy or ParaGON mercenary.

Codemasters has said it plans to release HEI$T on PC, PS3 and 360 this summer.

Codemasters is aiming to release Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising this winter.

HMV is offering free stuff to anyone pre-ordering Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360 from its online store.

NCsoft's superhero MMO, City of Heroes, is to begin selling additional character slots, according to a post on the official forums.

Microsoft is offering an Easter discount on five Xbox Live Video Store titles.

Beau Bridges, star of Stargate SG-1, The Fabulous Baker Boys and being Jeff Bridges' brother, has signed up to appear in the forthcoming Max Payne movie.